netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: Error when route does not have any valid nexthops

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Message-Id: <20190622.165111.1722448155363637012.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 22 Jun 2019 16:51:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     idosch@...sch.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com,
        idosch@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: Error when route does not have any
 valid nexthops

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:10:21 +0300

> From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
> 
> When user space sends invalid information in RTA_MULTIPATH, the nexthop
> list in ip6_route_multipath_add() is empty and 'rt_notif' is set to
> NULL.
> 
> The code that emits the in-kernel notifications does not check for this
> condition, which results in a NULL pointer dereference [1].
> 
> Fix this by bailing earlier in the function if the parsed nexthop list
> is empty. This is consistent with the corresponding IPv4 code.
> 
> v2:
> * Check if parsed nexthop list is empty and bail with extack set
> 
> [1]
 ...
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+382566d339d52cd1a204@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: ebee3cad835f ("ipv6: Add IPv6 multipath notifications for add / replace")
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>

Applied.